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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 6 (of 6)

Note 378 — BOOK XXXII.1 REMEDIES DERIVED FROM AQUATIC ANIMALS. (continued 2)

John Bostock translation

An asserted remedy, founded, as Ajasson remarks, upon nothing but a pun, the resemblance between δελφὶς, a “dolphin,” and δελφὺς, the “womb.”

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